Nail-uprighting device



Dec. 15 1925' 1565.386

V. PAGANINI NAIL UPRIGHTING DEVICE Filed Aug. 21, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Dec. 15,1925. I 1,565,386

V. PAGANINI NAIL UPRIGHTING DEVICE Filed Aug. 21, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Dec. 15, 1925.

; UNITED STATES 1,365,386 PATENT OFFICE,

VALENTINE PAGANI NI, OF ROUNDUP, MONTANA.

NAIL-UPRIG-I-ITING DEVICE. 1

Application filed August 21, 1924. Serial No. 733,396.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VALENTINE PAGANINI, a citizen of the United States, residing at Roundup, in the county of Musselshell and State of Montana,- have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Nail-Uprighting Devices, of which the following'is a specification.

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Figure 3 is an end elevational view of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a section on line 4-4 of Figure 1; and

Figure 5 is a section on line 55 of Figure 2.

Like reference characters represent like parts throughout the drawings and in the following specification in which, 2 is a barrel hopper, provided with'a door 3, the door 3 being of a nonmagnetic material such as copper, and being pivotally mounted at 4 and yieldingly held closed by a spring 5, and being carried by a shaft 6, and detachably mounted to the shaft 6 by any suitable quickly detachable anchoring device such as screws 7, so that the door may be changed for the purposes hereinafter disclosed; The door is of foraminous material, the openings preferably being spaced apart longitudinal slits about three quarters of an inch in length, the slits stamped out of sheet metal with the stock pushed down to form side walls. The purpose of these slits desig nated by the numeral 8, is to allow the 1 smaller portion of the nail or tack to pass through and prevent the head from passing through whereby upon agitation of the hopper with the door down, the nails will automatically upright themselves, whereupon by opening the door and at the same time keeping it horizontal, the nails may be rapidly taken from the uprighter door or plate 3, with the heads always up, and the nailing continuedwithout even looking at the source of the nalls and without giving any attention to righting them.

To accomplish the automatic opening of the door and its automatically being always in a horizontal position, I provide, mounted to the shaft 6 a tangential pin 9 provided with a cambre point 10, which pin in its upward movement engages a stop 11 and rides thereon for a predetermined distance. Co-axial with the drum hopper 2 is a shaft 12 carrying the drum, the shaft being journalled at 13 in standards lt and 15 and the shaftcarrying a knob 16 and intermittent ratchet 17 There is also provided a spring pawl 18. For about a quarter of the circumference of the ratchet there are no ratchet teeth, so that when the door is downward the hopper may be oscillated without interference of the pawl 18, but when turned counter-clockwise as shown in Figure 3, the ratchet teeth will prevent the backward movement and the spring 5 will tend to urge a backward movement and the two working in opposition will hold the plate horizontal when in open door relation. A magnetic hammer may then be run over the plate without even looking at it and the heads of the nails will be engaged by the hammer so that they will be picked up upright.

Claims:

1. In a nail uprighting device, a support, a barreled-shaped hopper pivotally mounted on said support, a side door of foraminous material, and means for causing the door to be opened into a horizontal position when the hopper is turned on its mounting in one direction.

2. In a nail uprighting device, a support,

a barreled-shaped hopper pivotally mounted on said support, a side door of foraminous material, means for opening the door as the' 3. In a nail uprighting device, a barrelshaped hopper provided with a shaft, a handle on said shaft, a portable base member journalling the shaft, a nail uprighter plate forming a door for the hopper, and means for automatically opening and closing said door upon a predetermined movement of the handle member. I

4:. In combination, a barrel-like revoluble nail hopper, a nail uprighter plate forming a. door therefor, a portable base for journalling the hopper, and means for connecting the hopper and base for automatically moving the plate relative to the hopper upon predetermined movements of the hopper.

5. In combination, a barrel-shaped hopper, a portion of the peripheral wall of the ho per comprising a nail uprighter plate pivotally mounted thereon, a portable base member adapted to revelubly carry the hop per, and means interconnecting the hopper and base memoer to automatically turn the uprighter plat to a predetermined position upon its pivotal axis upon a predetermined movement of the hopper 6. A self contained portable nail upright device comprising a base member provided with a pair of standards, a barrel-shaped hopper provided with a shaft jonrnalleu, in the standards, an upright carried by the base member, an nprighter plate pivotally mounted on the hopper and forming a portion of the peripheral wall thereof, means for manually turning the hopper, and means interconnected with the upright for autoniatically moving the plate upon its pivotal axis upon a predetermined moven'ient of the hopper.

7. A self contained portable nail upright device comprising a base member provided with a pair of standards, a barrel-shaped hopper provided with a shaft journalled 1n the standards, an upright carried by the base member, a lug on the upright, an uprighter plate pivotally mounted on the hopper and forming a portion of the peripheral wall thereof, means for manually turning the hopper, and means for automatically moving the plate upon its pivotal axis upon a predetermined movement of the hopper including a detent connected with the plate and adapted to engage the lug carried by the upright.

In testimony whereof I ai'iix my signature.

VALENTINE PAGANINI. 

